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According to the author, are the following statements correct?
Answer YES, NO or NOT GIVEN.
1) The human brain is set up to perform many tasks at once.
2) The information age is characterised by our exposure to an abundance of data.
3) Multi-tasking may reduce human performance.
Exercise 89
IELTS Reading: which paragraph contains...?
Read the following passage about the tutorial method of teaching, which is used in
some universities.
A)
The tutorial method of teaching, where students are taught individually or in very small
groups of two or three, developed as the collegiate system in Oxford and Cambridge
Universities established itself. Teaching has existed in Oxford since the 11th century, and
the role of tutors was documented in the 15th century, when Oxford tutors were described
as ‘having responsibility for the conduct and instruction of their younger colleagues’ (Moore,
1968). Thus, the early role of the tutor was both pastoral as well as academic.
B)
One of the foundations of Oxford’s academic excellence is the dialectic of the individual,
discussion-based tutorial which is reputed to have reached its unique status in the middle of
the 19th century. Professor Benjamin Jowett, classicist and Master of Balliol College,
Oxford, is traditionally credited with having been the guiding influence behind the
establishment of the tutorial system based on the Socratic method. His students said of
Jowett, ‘his great skill consisted, like Socrates, in helping us to learn and think for ourselves’
(Markham, 1967). When Jowett took up the mantle of Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
in 1882, his teaching method of Socratic dialogue became established as a ‘pattern for the
whole university’ (Markham, 1967).
C)
In the last decade, multiple studies have been conducted exploring the unique learning
benefits of the tutorial method. 130 years after it was formally established as the
cornerstone of Oxford education, the tutorial method retains its prestige and effectiveness.
As the present university website states, it is through the tutorial system that ‘students
develop powers of independent and critical thought, analytical and problem-solving abilities,
and skills in both written and oral communication and argument'.
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